| Show THE SOUTHERN UTES the following lately appeared in the denver ramr robert Els elsmere merell has reached M moab ab with the progress of civilization but it is fair to say that neither that nor the hysterical she will produce such a sensation tb thereas ere as the official document containing the report rt t of the late indian commission ahe the gentlemen composing this commission were major weaver of arkansas ka bev mr childs of washington D C and judge smith of wisconsin botone not one of them was front from either utah or color colorado ido who might have had an interest in either place their report shows that they first talked to the utes to no pur pose then they went out to the blue lue mountains with some of the chiefs chiefe and during the tour by the simple and childlike child like tike plan of promising the indians all they could see won consent to move some of the indians shrewdly enough doubted openly the power of the commission to give what they offered if a white man has a ranch said buckskin charley can you give it to a ute 1 no said the commissioner not if the government has deeded it to him then it is his we are in the same fix said charley this land is deeded to us and we do not wish to leave it the proposed in the blue mountains contains nearly acres all of san juan county there are less than a thousand of the southern utes all told that makes about acres a apiece jece for every man woman and egild child in addition the government gives each ute 20 worth of sheep and 50 in money to make the change this does not include the bounties to the chiefs then it gives them free the improvements made by settlers in the blue mountain country which are estimated as worth their own houses on the colorado reservation are to be sold for the indians benefit does not this seem a pretty fal fair r start for a few savages would not i 1000 americans be well off with such assistance in emigrating no 91 says severo severe tilt it is not enough we want miles squaw squam we want the la sal mountains we want the crossing at moab we w e wan you to drive those mormons cormons out of there they are right in the WRY way it will not be good for them to 1316 1 there there will always be trouble with the mormons cormons and the utes but return the commissioners commission erB ersy we cannot those people have hav paid for their land the la sal Is not a little placed place it is thirty miles long we were a day passing it y and then with supreme tenderness dr child adds I 1 if we could we would give it to you severe revero insists that there will be trouble because the mormons cormons have ave herds he is assured that you shall be protected if it takes all the soldiers iu in the united states doubtless but some of us pool white trash would like the protection tio nofa ofa little common sense froan our rulers then the indians return to the charge they must have moab they must have the la sal bal and after long talking and assurances that the whites shall bed be riven driven from the reservation offered the interpreter turns to the commissioner and says say they think you mean moab severo severe adds when you say those mormons cormons we mean these cormons mormons Mor mons indicating moab and with this confused understanding the treaty is patched up article 7 gives the indians the right riga to use the la sal which to them means its possession and the expel elpi cali sion of the whites whom they call Morn ibus though the mormons cormons a are now in the minority I 1 I 1 what a pity the indians did not ask for provo or some large pleas ant town instead of moab denver should secure a ute for real estate bu business sines the present reservation contains about acres nd n not one acre is to be compared with the lands of moab leaving OU out t of 01 the question the B fine ne young orchards there unsurpassed in the world for the yield of fruit the blue mountains I 1 have never visited they are said to contain aztec relies relics buildings and painted earv carvings ings the commissioners pronounce it a superb grazing country and the mormon Ty lormon bishop st monticello elJo says that forty and fifty bushels of wheat to the acre can be raised there without irrigation its only settlement consists of a 9 faw ie mormon families carlisles carlisle great stock ranch the carlisles carlisle are foreigners and are said to hire bire men to t hold land for them and a few eat cattlemen in indian valley the cattle cattie and horses to be moved all number nearly as many as those cleared out of oklahoma but that is not the question Oll great as may be the injustice of oi giving away of acres without her consents consent those thus dispossessed will receive soto 80 com compensation sensation pensa tion from the government the shame is I 1 in n so wi the tresty that the indians will be believe aleve that they own the la sal andl and thus saddle the danger of an indian out break on the struggling pioneers of little kittle grand fisher and little castle valleys in utah and the beautiful dutiful auti ful wealthy and progressive settlement tt lement of paradox valley in to colorado lorado por for it must be remembered the and of red cut throats under old ratch latch and mancos Ji jim mareto are to be oded to the utes atee on their removal por 0 years these renegades rene gades have been roaming oar through the country doing more or less mischief and under no control of any tribe on the whole the we southern utes are not bad indians their pleading to remain on heir old reservation was pathe tic c and earnest they are learn ag to farm after a fashion by de rt glees they will be able to take care rif themselves and the indian feln newill will be settled it is not possible 1 l according to the delusive promises is of the commission to send them billere NIl here lere white men cannot penetrate the better and wiser indians know OV this they know their only ope is in conforming to the white ns laws to push them in on utah in the th e proposed fashion may VOW please the young and ss but lt t will break up their poor little at at farming it will place them where the feeling is bitterly hostile and od on lands so valuable that they lust again be ordered out this is oat article 7 means meana we certainly ul not leave the country nor will oab take it quietly the men here cure aft strangers to indian wars and auch bouch as aa they would regret one cannot tS afford ba to throw away their bard earned farms the commissioners were so full of sare tor for the indians that in concluding their report they advise advise the government to keep all herds out of kaall an juan county lest the grazing raould not be in good condition when the tribe moves there not one word of pity have they for rahe the poor mormon men women and childrs of bluff city and who as the bishop aa ays are some of them too poor to 10 have a team and must leave the h kinec 6 mes they have defended and seek t ere god knows where il a woi d for half million ajl or so of property put in danger by ora ettl not a word for the brave set tiers of the la sal not one for the trev abling h homes es of paradox is ut 6 by this commission assuredly f 9 t dis grace to cleveland a adminis ion alon in its utter folly and recklessness an ess of human rights not that their care for the indian 8 any anymore isaore eita either er than an affect loii 1 I think said a chief that if you present werd ere sent to talk to us you say nore moro than you were told fold to say the he same way you yeu came that WV y YOU can go back they were 0 o told ila conclusion they asked the i 61 gelat if the indians could cook a 4 n biet ifft feast if it reissued we were issued to them for ti they ey can said the agent abut we issue six to eight at a tir 41 e their tenderness for forthe the oppre oppressed med ull led e them to make promises ac never can be fulfilled and to berdela ruen the government with the shame shaine of a false treaty if it leads to a war in which according to calculations it costs to kill one indian then indeed they may have done some good it may be borne in upon the public that utter strangers have no right to legislate for a territory of all perhaps utah is the most helpless in cases of the kind the mormons cormons of every county would be likely to cubbit to the outrageous treaty in silence the gentiles will not they will work against it in every way and if defeated look out for the results As I 1 said above I 1 dont know the blue mountains or their value I 1 do know this region I 1 know that for nine months in the year its climate is perfect that children run barefoot in winter and tents tente are sufficient houses I 1 have seen its purple grapes and golden peaches in wagon loads tomatoes and other vegetables volunteer after being once sown sweet potatoes cotton tobacco and peanuts are grown melons are weeds I 1 have raised muskmelons musk melons weighing twelve pounds and watermelons water melons weighing four on ground that had never been plowed in fact there are many things which will do well on ground simply irrigated you can begin planting I 1 in february and raise two crops of of potatoes ta toes in a year strawberries ire are ripe in may and tomatoes can be had at christmas while early vegetables come in march pears grow horn hom cuttings and a yearling peach tree often bears fruit any hot summer day you may ride up under the balmy shadow of the pines and drink the ice cold mountain springs all winter you have not cold enough to freeze water within doors yet it is coli enough to give the luxury of winter its frost and sparkle are in the air the soil is better every year that the ditches run upon it and the first years yearns crop is the poorest the sand has been burned for centuries and at first is loose and disappointing but after that first season you may begin no stable your chickens may house in a tree and the easiest raised chickens here are the fall broods that are fat by spring A large trade in spring chic chickens lens ought to grow up nere here with ten acres under ditch you can almost live independent of the outer world the best proof of all this is that there are no places for sale except where a disgusted mormon is trying to get away from the wicked gentiles southern utah resembles western colorado in the way it has been neglected the fi first ret settlement of utah was around salt lake just as colorado was first settled at denver people were slow to cross the mountains and see what lay on the other side so it has chanced that colorado people have gathered anaut the la sal instead of the saints western colorado is an empire not yet fully explored southeastern utah is not so extensive but richer in its possibilities fur for horticulture than colorado can ever be it has not the lovely green pastures of western colorado but neither has it the snow and cold that rule 4 half the year up there we are feet above sea level here there has never been any attempt to advertise the country because those who ha I 1 it were content and rather resented intrusion they aarein are indeed so much inclined towards the philosophy of taking things easy that were it not for the obnoxious article in the treaty I 1 doubt if any protest worth mentioning would have been made against moving the utes it might have been readily accomplished had the arrangements been reasonable there is little sympathy with the alien cattle kings of the blue mountains and in general the feeling among settlers has been that a trifle of the cattle oatt lemens mena arrogance might be abated with advantage to the public welfare even if it took indians to do it half cannot he be told in print regarding events in a section entirely given up to herds and their lawless guardians but there is such a thing as driving too sharp a bargain and appearances pe ea arances rances are that the utes have ane done so in this case M M B R |
